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The Organization and Exploration of Space as Narrative: Information Architecture in Video Games
Halmstad University, School of Information Technology. Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2349-347x
2021 (English)In: Advances in Information Architecture: The Academics / Practitioners Roundtable 2014–2019 / [ed] Resmini, A.; Rice, S. A.; Irizarry, B., Cham: Springer, 2021, p. 195-210Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The chapter analyzes the organization of space and narrative in videogames as an instance of the information architecture of digital environments and of thestructural role it plays in shaping experience. It does so by adopting two different waysto analyze the space/narrative relationship: Lynch’s spatial primitives for cognitivemapping, and McGregor’s taxonomy of spatial patterns. These are then applied toread three different action/adventure video games: Prince of Persia: The Sands ofTime, Shadow of the Colossus, and Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. The reason isthreefold: to illuminate the individual information architectures of games that might,on the surface, be regarded as providing very similar experiences; to contribute tothe ongoing conversation on embodiment and spatiality in information architecture;and to provide an example of how contemporary information architecture can beemployed to critique different types of information environments.

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Cham: Springer, 2021. p. 195-210
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Human-Computer Interaction Series, ISSN 1571-5035, E-ISSN 2524-4477
Keywords [en]
information architecture, placemaking, spatiality, experience, videogames
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Design
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-46558DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-63205-2_18ISBN: 978-3-030-63204-5 (print)ISBN: 978-3-030-63207-6 (print)ISBN: 978-3-030-63205-2 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-46558DiVA, id: diva2:1649178
Available from: 2022-04-03 Created: 2022-04-03 Last updated: 2022-04-04Bibliographically approved

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